Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital … executive officers of these hospitals are then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non …-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a …

introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for specialist physicians working in hospital. This scheme combines a fixed …We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk … patients' health by more than a critical level, they will stay more days in hospital over the period. At the empirical level …

increasing prices. We test this prediction based on a reform of hospital financing in Germany. Uniquely, this reform changed the …

Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We …

We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

role in explaining the effect of ownership status on hospital quality. When age, sex, diagnoses and co-morbidities are held … hospitals. -- hospital performance ; innovative procedures ; stratified duration model ; hospital quality …

the programme has decreased the nurse turnover rate by 4.49%, decreased exits from the public hospital sector by 5 ….38%, and reduced mortality within 30 days from hospital admission by 3.45%, preventing 11,400 deaths. Our results are …

We evaluate the effect of a pro-competition reform gradually introduced in France over the 2004-2008 period on hospital … are all under a DRG-based payment system after the reform. For each hospital status, we assess the benefits of local … hospital level to take into account hospital unobserved heterogeneity and censorship in the duration of stays in a flexible way …

provision of hospital care. After the referendum, a sharp drop in the number of early-career new joiners from Europe resulted in … strategy, we find that emergency readmission rates increased, and more so in hospital organizations more exposed to the missing …